Learn how to identify hazards, manage risks and protect your workers from injury and illness.
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Work health and safety lawsUnderstand the work health and safety laws that apply to every place of work in Queensland.
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How to set up your business so you comply with Queensland’s health and safety laws.
If an injury or illness occursThe steps to take—from making sure people are safe to reporting injuries and making a claim.
Getting back to workThe steps involved in starting your recovery and getting you back to work.
Guide to health and safety lawsAn overview of the laws, how they fit together and what they require of employers and workers.
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Farm safety calendar competition
Enter now! Queensland primary school students are encouraged to draw and colour a picture to illustrate a farm safety message.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Actions that should be taken by employers and workers to ensure workplace hygiene and cleanliness is achieved to the standard necessary to protect people against COVID-19 infection.
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Ambassadors
Queensland Safety Ambassador Shane shares the impact of his father's death and importance of staying safe at work and strong safety culture.
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Safety Advocates
Our Safety Advocates highlight the personal impacts that an injury can have on workers and their families.
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Queensland Workers Memorial
The Queensland Workers Memorial and Honour Roll commemorates workers who died as a result of a work-related incident, disease, or illness.
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Qld’s labour hire scheme stamps out rogues
On the third anniversary of Queensland’s nation-leading labour hire licensing laws, the state’s Industrial Relations Minister has once again...
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Time to colour-in for farm safety
Queensland primary school students are being asked to crack out the colouring pencils again to help save lives on farms.
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Dismounting from moving tractor causes death at North Queensland farm
A North Queensland produce company was fined $150,000 in the Bowen Magistrates Court for a 2019 incident that resulted in the death of a 37-...
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Moranbah electrical industry work health and safety forum
Hear from Safety Advocate Dan Kennedy, who shares his family’s heartbreak after their son’s preventable death while working as an electrical...
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Jason Daniels’ story – surviving an electric shock from overhead powerlines
Due to the Greater Brisbane area lockdown, we have postponed the film launch of Jason Daniels’ story – surviving an electric shock from over...
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Musculoskeletal Disorders Symposium
The 2021 national symposium will be a digital event.
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workplace health and safety alert
Failures of concrete pump delivery pipeline end fittings and hoses
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incident alert
Worker seriously injured after fall from roof
20 April 2021 -
incident alert
Operator killed by reversing telehandler
13 April 2021 -
incident alert
Forklift operator seriously injured by falling pallet
8 April 2021 -
workplace health and safety alert
Fake disposable respiratory protective equipment
31 March 2021